Breaking the Spell of Loneliness, music album and tour aimed at building connections and communities (or at least highlighting the need to do that)

https://www.thephone.coop/about-us/blog/2016/october/connecting-people-by-phone-to-break-the-spell-of-loneliness/ "To highlight their plight the writer and campaigner George Monbiot has joined forces with the leading folk singer and musician Ewan McLennan to launch a new tour and album called 'Breaking the Spell of Loneliness' which is out this week. It followed George writing a column two years ago on the subject in which he argued that what distinguishes our age from those preceding it is an epidemic of loneliness, a deadly condition, which kills as many people as smoking or obesity. "

http://www.fellside.com/shop/fe-cd/ewan-mclennan-george-monbiot-breaking-spell-loneliness/ "This remarkable collaboration between author George Monbiot and musician Ewan McLennan seeks to address the curse of our age: a crowded planet stricken by loneliness. Using music and the written word, it seeks to make connections in a splintered world."